The Double Ninth Festival: Beautiful Chrysanthemums Grant Longevity - Core Kyoto | NHK WORLD-JAPAN

The five seasonal festivals to drive out evil originate in Yin and Yang philosophy. The most important is the Double Ninth festival on September 9, the largest, single-digit odd number. Chrysanthemums, a medicinal herb, are used for purification in the 1,000-year-old longevity rituals; hence, the f…